Peter L. Haffner
Assistant Professor of Art History
Offices & Programs
Education
BA in Art History, Bard College
MA & PhD in Culture & Performance, UCLA
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Peter L. Haffner is an Assistant Professor of Art History and affiliated faculty of African and African-American Studies and Latin-American Studies. He teaches on the arts of Haiti and the Black Atlantic, as well as global modern and contemporary arts. Before joining Centre’s faculty in 2019 he was a Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Museum of African Art. His interdisciplinary arts-based research centers on the work of Haitian artists and the complex global cultural dynamics in which it is produced, exhibited and circulated. He earned his Ph.D. in Culture and Performance in 2017 from UCLA’s Department of World Arts & Cultures/Dance. He also holds a BA in Art History from Bard College and has a professional background in arts administration.
AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
- Haitian Art Society, Board of Directors
- College Art Association, Education Committee
COURSES TAUGHT
- Afro-Atlantic Visual Arts
- Art & Revolutions in Haiti
- The Arts of Modernism: 1889-1944
- Art Since 1945
- Global Surrealisms
- Arts & Markets
- Survey of Western Art
PUBLICATIONS
- “At the Crossroads of Many Worlds: Marilyn Houllberg and Arts Patronage in Haiti,” in Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 26, no. 2 (July 1, 2022): 60–78.